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x, [2], 691, [1] pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : 29 cm (4to)

"In three volumes. Vol. III."

"This volume contains the material printed for the first time in the second edition [1814] of the Miscellaneous Works and here printed in 4to to make a volume uniform with the two 4to volumes of the first edition"-Norton, J.E.A bibliography of the works of Edward Gibbon, 1940, p. 206-207, no. 136

On t.p. verso: London: Printed by C. Roworth ... and T. Davison ..

Gibbon's epitaph on sixth leaf

(Titles from captions or divisional title pages) Mémoire sur la monarchie des Mèdes, pour servir de suppl̤ement aux dissertations de MM. Freret de de Bougainville -- Les principales époques de l'histoire de la Grèce et de l'Égypte, dans la nouvelle chronologie du chevalier Newton, comparées aves les chronologies ordinaires -- Extrait de trois mémoires de M. l'Abbé de la Bleterie sur la succession de l'Empire Romain et d'un sur le prénom d'Auguste -- Remarques critiques sur le nombre des habitans dans la cité des Sybarites -- Du gouvernement féodal sur-tout en France -- Relation des noces de Charles duc de Bourgogne, avec la princesse Maguerite, soeur d'Edouard IV. roi d'Angleterre -- Doutes historiques sur la vie et le regne du roi Richard III. par M. Horace Walpole -- istoire générale de la republique des Suisse -- Antiquites of the House of Brunswick -- Digression on the character of Brutus -- Nomina, gentesque antiquae Italiae -- Remarques sur les ouvrages et sur le caractere de Salluste, Jules Cesar, Cornelius Nepos, et Tite Live -- Remarques critiques sur un passage de Plaute -- Remarques sur quelques endroits de Virgile -- Remarques sur quelques prodiges -- Remarques critiques sur les dignites sacerdotales de Jules Cesar -- Principes des poids, des monnoies, et des mesures des anciens, avec des tables construites sur ces principes -- Dissertations sur les poids, les monnoies, et les mesures des anciens, &c. -- Memoires posthumes de M. de Cheseaux -- On the position of the meridional line, and an inquiry into the supposed circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Selections from Mr. Gibbon's common-place books, memoranda, &c. -- Hints -- Index expurgatorius -- Alphabetical list -- Remarks on Blackstone's Commentaries, referred to in Mr. Gibbon's memoirs -- The following notes were written by Mr. Gibbon the Summer before his death, at Sheffield-Place, in an interleaved fourth edition of Harwood's View of the various editions of the Greek and Roman classics. It is to be regretted that he did not go through the whole work as he intended; but these perhaps may be interesting to collectors of books -- Letters to and from Edward Gibbon, Esq. -- The remains of Mr. Gibbon were deposited in Lord Sheffield's family burial-place, in Fletching, Sussex; whereon is inscribed the following epitaph, written at his Lordship's request by a distinguished scholar, the Rev. Dr. Parr

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